While the company has stressed the program is voluntary and that the devices are not traceable, the comments of those overseeing the program clearly indicate that they consider the technology to be more wide reaching than obtaining snacks in the workplace.

“I think it can control everything. I gave an example earlier, [that] when you get pulled over, you just stick out your hand and [a police officer] will scan your hand. You don’t have to carry anything,” software engineer Sam Bangston told reporters.

Yeah… no thanks Sam.

“Obviously this drew a lot of attention and a lot of feedback of ‘Oh, they’re going to be tracking you down the road.’ They can’t, there is no GPS added in this and there can’t be in this particular chip,” Melissa Timmons from the sales department added.

Right… except RFID chips can be tracked at short distances, that’s the point in them. And what’s more, the information stored on them can be accessed by anyone who knows how… including hackers and spies.

Even more creepy was a comment from President and CEO of Three Square Market Patrick McMullen, who told reporters “There are governments that run central banks they were one of the first ones to call us to say we’ve got to control our employees and we need to have certain access levels and we can’t have that compromise, and they saw that as a solution.”

Lovely, chip everyone to ‘control’ them huh? The government central banks are doing it, so what possible concerns could everyday Americans have?